Archive for the ‘George Kalnitsky’ Category

Lawrence Gray, who recently completed his PhD with Sharam Khademi, has been named the winner of the 2012 Subramanian Award for best PhD thesis in the Department of Biochemistry. Larry is currently pursuing post-doctoral studies with Dr. Eric Taylor.

Larry is the 19th winner of the Subramanian Award, which is made possible by a gift from Dr. Alap Subramanian, a 1964 PhD from the department, who parlayed his training with the late George Kalnitsky, (and with Irving Klotz at Northwestern and both Bernard Davis and Herman Kalckar at Harvard Medical School), into a highly successful career at the Max-Planck-Institut. Our deepest thanks to Dr. Subramanian and our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Gray.

Xiao Peng, who recently completed her PhD with Kris DeMali, has been named the winner of the 2011 Subramanian Award for best PhD thesis in the Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Peng was an American Heart Association-funded graduate student who focused on the role of vinculin in adherens junctions. With this support, she uncovered the first role for vinculin in cell-cell junctions and identified novel mechanisms for the activation and recruitment of vinculin to sites of intercellular adhesion.

Xiao is pursuing post-doctoral studies at the University of California San Francisco in the laboratory of Dr. Keith Mostov.

Xiao is the 18th winner of the Subramanian Award, which is made possible by a gift from Dr. Alap Subramanian, a 1964 PhD from the department, who parlayed his training with the late George Kalnitzky into a highly succesful career at the Max-Planck-Institut. Our deepest thanks to Dr. Subraminian and our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Peng.

We have received the sad news that William I. Rogers, a 1956 Biochemistry PhD, passed away on February 14th, 2011 at his home in New Hampshire after a long battle with cancer.

Dr. Rogers studied at Dartmouth, Adelphi and Vermont before matriculating to the University of Iowa and earning his PhD with George Kalnitsky. He was recalled by Clarence Berg as a witness to the great fire of 1953.

After Iowa, Dr. Rogers was the head of the biochemical pharmacology laboratory at Arthur D. Little, Inc. in Chicago and Cambridge. After leaving Arthur D. Little, he founded his own consulting company, Chadwick Rogers Incorporated, where he worked until retirement. Dr. Rogers is also remembered as a talented photographer who loved to spend time with his family and friends.

Dr. Rogers is survived by his wife of 57 years, Ruthanne (Chadwick) Rogers; two brothers, Raymond and Thomas Rogers; 3 children, Geoffrey, Gerry and Christopher Rogers; and 3 grandchildren. Dr. Rogers obituary has been published in The Boston Globe .

Bret Freudenthal, who recently completed his PhD with Todd Washington, has been named the winner of the 2010 Subramanian Award for best PhD thesis in the Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Freudenthal was an American Heart Association-funded graduate student who focused on the structural biology and enzymology of wild-type and mutant proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in promoting translesion DNA synthesis. His first author publications include a Biochemistry report, an Acta Cryst D contribution, and a Nature Struct Mol Biol paper, which was highlighted in Nature Chem Biol.

Bret is no stranger to Biochemistry awards, having been given an inaugural Gehring Award last fall. He is bound for the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences to work with Dr. Samuel Wilson.

Bret is the 17th winner of the Subramanian Award, which is made possible by a gift from Dr. Alap Subramanian, a 1964 PhD from the department, who parlayed his training with the late George Kalnitzky into a highly successful career at the Max-Planck-Institut. Our deepest thanks to Dr. Subramanian and our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Freudenthal.

Dr. David Allis, the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology at Rockefeller University will deliver this year’s Vestling Lecture in the Sahai Auditorium at 4 pm on February 25. The title of Allis’s lecture is “Beyond the Double Helix: Reading & Writing the Histone Code.” A reception will follow the lecture. (more…)

Thanks to an agreement between Google and The University of Iowa, the late Clarence Peter Berg’s 1980 out of print monograph, The University of Iowa and Biochemistry from their Beginnings, is now available online. (more…)

Congratulations to Stanley Sedore, winner of the 2009 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, sponsored by Alap Subramanian. Dr. Sedore’s thesis entitled, “Gene-specific control of P-TEFb by HIV,” was performed under the supervision of David Price. He is now finishing medical school at the Carver College of Medicine as an MD/PhD student. (more…)